{"id":132,"date":"2008-11-04T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-02-24T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:52:50","slug":"shooting-from-the-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Shooting From The Hip…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This election season has been trying. To be honest, it has just about done me in. Normally, I am\u00a0somewhat\u00a0like the character\u00a0Chris from the old TV show, Northern Exposure<\/strong>. As anti-establishment as this character tended to be, he had a great respect for the process. For the whole idea of democracy, and voting. Exercising free will, free thought, free expression… Freedom.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I still am like Chris in that regard. But, like I said, this has been a long, trying election season.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, my preferred candidate didn’t get the nod in the primaries, so I was left with a field I didn’t particularly like. And, I’m not just talking about the two party system here, I’m talking about all of them…. Dems, Pubs, Constitution, Libertarian, Green, all of them<\/em><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

There were things I liked about each candidate, but then there were things I absolutely couldn’t stand about each of them as well. This left me with a hard decision, and one that I was wholly unable to make until this morning, while standing in line at the polling place, and thoughts of freedom of choice<\/strong><\/em> bounced around inside my head…<\/p>\n

Normally, my vote is played close to the vest. It is my<\/strong> vote, and no one else’s. That is why we have the secret ballot in this country. So, I generally don’t make my vote known to anyone, with the exception of family and a few close friends.<\/p>\n

This year, I am breaking with that tradition.<\/p>\n

Since I couldn’t see my way clear to cast my vote for any of the candidates listed on the ballot,\u00a0I exercised my rights to use the write-in option. And, yes… I voted for EK.<\/p>\n

When I told her this she thought I was kidding. Once I convinced her that I was deadly serious, she\u00a0informed me she doesn’t want the job. In my mind, that makes her far more qualified than any of the folks clamoring for it…<\/p>\n

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More to come…<\/p>\n

Murv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why settle for the two party system? Anyone can be President, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,5,6],"tags":[438,251,713,8162,8104,87,8105,16,3230,164,1022,288,8118,38,969,4492,8144,88,86,159,4156,417,8117,387,453,1016,66,8122],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-life","category-life","category-news-and-politics","tag-ac","tag-art","tag-dates","tag-e-k","tag-ek","tag-election","tag-evil-kat","tag-family","tag-free","tag-friends","tag-honest","tag-job","tag-murv","tag-myspace","tag-ne","tag-northern-exposure","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-q","tag-right","tag-ring","tag-sellars","tag-serious","tag-space","tag-stl","tag-tradition","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}